James Allen Quotes

#1. World - "You think in secret and it comes to pass, environment is but your looking glass." James Allen wrote those words

Bob Proctor

#2. James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?

Jim Rohn

#3. Chapter 2: Thought Waves and Their Process of Reproduction

James Allen

#4. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The

James Allen

#5. When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

James Allen

#6. Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

James Allen

#7. As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

James Allen

#8. A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

James Allen

#9. You must get outside yourself, and must begin to examine and understand yourself.

James Allen

#10. What you are, so is your world.

James Allen

#11. The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.

James Allen

#12. Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

James Wolcott

#13. Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

James Allen

#14. A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

James Allen

#15. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean.

James Allen

#16. IF YOU WOULD PROTECT YOUR BODY, GUARD YOUR MIND.

James Allen

#17. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. From the state of a man's heart doth proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.

James Allen

#18. One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

James Allen

#19. Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

James Allen

#20. The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

#21. For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

James Allen

#22. There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

James Allen

#23. Mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

James Allen

#24. Good thoughts bear good fruit ...

James Lane Allen

#25. Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

James Allen

#26. Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

James Allen

#27. He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened;" for

James Allen

#28. Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities.

James Allen

#29. A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

James Van Allen

#30. The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew a way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

James Allen

#31. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen

#32. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

James Allen

#33. As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

James Allen

#34. Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and
material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of
circumstance.

James Allen

#35. Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.

Theo James

#36. Self-seeking is self-destruction

James Allen

#37. Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

James Allen

#38. He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

James Allen

#39. you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny.

James Allen

#40. A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

James Allen

#41. Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

James Allen

#42. No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

James Allen

#43. A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

James Allen

#44. Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

James Allen

#45. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

James Allen

#46. You will be what you will to be.

James Allen

#47. You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

James Lane Allen

#48. Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life.

James Allen

#49. A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

James Allen

#50. The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

#51. I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

James Van Allen

#52. The Temple of Righteousness is built and its four walls are the four Principles - Purity, Wisdom, Compassion, Love. Peace is its roof; its floor Steadfastness, its entrance-door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.

James Allen

#53. The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

James Lane Allen

#54. A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

James Allen

#55. CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control.

James Allen

#56. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

James Allen

#57. He's a seminal force, a guru, an original creator of the New Orleans piano style.. the teacher of great players like Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Mac Rebenack, James Booker, and Huey Smith. All acknowledge him as The Great Master.

Jerry Wexler

#58. The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

James Allen

#59. To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

#60. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

#61. If you would perfect your body, guard your mind.

James Allen

#62. There is but one religion, the religion of Truth.

James Allen

#63. The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.

James Allen

#64. All things at last yield to the silent, irresistible, all conquering energy of purpose.

James Allen

#65. There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

James Allen

#66. We do not attract what we want, but what we are.

James Lane Allen

#67. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of
heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, laboring humanity would perish.

James Allen

#68. The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.

James Allen

#69. Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought.

James Allen

#70. The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought,

James Allen

#71. These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

James Van Allen

#72. You cannot travel within and stand still without.

James Lane Allen

#73. That circumstances grow out of thought every man knows who has for any length of time practised self-control and self-purification, for he will have noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered mental condition. So

James Allen

#74. Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the

James Allen

#75. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

James Lane Allen

#76. If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow - sure.

James Allen

#77. Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

James Lane Allen

#78. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

James Allen

#79. Things you might hear,
Things you wanna believe,
Things that aren't true,
Things that people say,
It's these THINGS that causes people to feel not wanted.

James Allen

#80. You are today where your thoughts have brought you;
you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Allen

#81. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

James Allen

#82. I was the bridge between the Michael Jordan era and LeBron James era.

Allen Iverson

#83. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.

James Allen

#84. If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

James Allen

#85. As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.

James Allen

#86. Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

James Allen

#87. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step. He who has conquered doubt

James Allen

#88. Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

James Allen

#89. A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

James Allen

#90. THE dreamers are the saviours of the world.

James Allen

#91. I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.

James Van Allen

#92. So you will be... What you 'will' to be

James Allen

#93. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.

James Allen

#94. Would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

James Allen

#95. Adversity does not build character,it reveals it

James Lane Allen

#96. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

James Allen

#97. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

James Allen

#98. It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

James Allen

#99. Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.

James Allen

#100. They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

James Allen